it was, yeah, it was -- i came there, and first time i met fidel was in the middle of some kind of nato, so he was asking me about how many leaders -- the ambassador was there. how many liters per square meet e you know, he's a man of figures. and after i said, commandant, i came here to talk about aids. i express my solidarity with the people affected by floods, ah, yes, he said. and then he started talking about how many cases in jamaica, how many there, how many there. and anyway, and sometimes he knew the figures better than i do because despite the fact i'd been a professor of epidemiology, i have a hard time remembering these figures. and then he said, okay, let's have a drink in my office. so we went in the office, and i asked him for water because i said i just arrived from europe jet lagged, and i said i need to make sure i do my best here, and then he said, no, no, no, you don't drink water. so what else? so mow here toe, okay. we are -- no here toe, we are in cuba. to make a long story short, we ended up, as he does sometimes, he called in half of the government and the vice